Official Metallica.com footage of the band's May 28 performance at the Sonisphere festival in Helsinki, Finland can be seen below. The 30-minute clip includes footage of the band soundchecking on May 27, a scary moment in the tuning room, and "Enter Sandman" and "The Frayed Ends Of Sanity" from the show. METALLICA played the song ...

Andrew Epstein of A Journal Of Musical Things recently conducted an interview with vocalist Freddy Lim of Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. Eagle Records released "Ián-Bú", the latest DVD offering from CHTHONIC, in February. The first new video release from the eclectic ensemble in six ...

Veteran thrashers WHIPLASH have parted ways with drummer Dan Foord and have replaced him with Charlie Zeleny. Charlie will make his live debut with WHIPLASH on June 22 at Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey. Tony Portaro, guitarist and founding member of WHIPLASH, first witnessed Charlie Z in action with Joe Lynn Turner's band, blowing the ...

Victor Agnello, who played drums for San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans LAAZ ROCKIT from 1983 to 1989 and again from 2005 to 2006, died on June 1 after over a year of battling leukemia. He was 50 years old. He passed away quietly at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, surrounded by his ...

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON will release their sixth album, "Once More 'Round The Sun", on June 24 via Reprise Records. The follow-up to 2011's "The Hunter" was recorded in Nashville with Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, who is known for his work with RUSH, DEFTONES, FOO FIGHTERS and ALICE IN CHAINS. The song "Chimes At ...

Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke was interviewewed for episode 18 of "One On One With Mitch Lafon". You can now listen to the chat using the Spreaker widget below. Clarke joined GUNS N' ROSES in November 1991, replacing Izzy Stradlin, who quit the group in the middle of a 28-month world tour. Gilby ...

Reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN, who will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of their 1994 album, "Superunknown", by reissuing in a deluxe edition, are tentatively planning to give a similar treatment to 1991's "Badmotorfinger", most likely in 2016. "We definitely have discussed giving this treatment to 'Badmotorfinger', for sure," SOUNDGARDEN guitarist Kim Thayil told ...

With over 100 million albums sold, the world's most dangerous bandreturns for this historic Sin City takeover! Now captured in 3D and 5.1 sound, GUNS N' ROSES' new concert film, "Appetite For Democracy 3D: Live From The Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas", is coming to U.S. cinemas Saturday, June 14. Rockfuel Media has selected ...

Scottish post-rock icons MOGWAI (pictured) have slammed METALLICA as "shite," claiming that they don't understand the controversy surrounding METALLICA being the first metal artist to headline Glastonbury in the U.K. festival's 44-year history. The members of MOGWAI, who are set to perform at the same time as METALLICA at this year's festival, gave their opinion ...